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Good luck !

Chris

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e:
>
> Good morning from London, England. Just a few words to introduce myself..=
.
>
> From the moment I opened up an old transistor radio I've had a deep inter=
est in audio. My first recordings were made on a compact cassette recorder =
in the late 1970s; I still have those early recordings (archived as WAVs) a=
nd have removed the noise using a mix of Goldwave and Adobe Audition.
>
> In the early 90s I trained as a broadcast engineer; sound was my speciali=
ty, but this was more technical side related to broadcast techniques (AM, F=
M, FM Stereo, NICAM)
>
> Over the past two decades I have recorded on MiniDisc, a Zoom H2, and now=
 a Sony PCM-M10 together with a Rode NT3 and Rode Video Mic. I love these m=
icrophones; they produce clear, low noise sound, that I find pleasant to li=
sten to. The Sony PCM-M10 is a recent purchase and I have been dumbstruck a=
t the quality of its recordings. I thought the Zoom H2 was superb, but the =
Sony is so much more defined and has much lower self noise.
>
> Now to my question. I need to record the sounds made by rabbits. They do =
make extremely quiet vocalisations; so quiet that they are almost inaudible=
 unless you know what to listen for. It's difficult to describe the sound, =
but 'grunt' comes close - very short bursts of principally low frequency so=
unds. they also squeak and 'quack' but these are not the sounds I want to c=
apture.
>
> The problem is that I need very small, sensitive, low noise microphones t=
o capture the sound. As the sounds will be captured in a domestic environme=
nt (inside a house) the only sounds I'll need to reject are of electrical a=
ppliances operating in adjacent rooms, and cars passing by. There will no w=
ind or other weather to worry about. The NT2 and Video Mic are capable of c=
apturing the sounds I'm after, but they are too large and attract the atten=
tion of rabbits. And rabbits like to gnaw things, especially new, expensive=
 items! I have already lost two foam windshields and numerous cables to rab=
bits, and can't afford to lose entire microphones.
>
> So, could anybody suggest either low cost, low noise, sensitive, unobtrus=
ive microphones or components to construct such a microphone? I can't suppl=
y phantom power, so batteries or plug-in power is  preferred.
>
> Thanking you all in advance of any suggestions.
>
> JM
>








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